so this will run half life 2 if I'm not mistaken?
486Tang – 486 on a credit-card-sized FPGA board
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Re: 486Tang – 486 on a credit-card-sized FPGA board
#12Silly question. Are there any 486-compatible small CPUs that could be embedded into a project instead of using an FPGA? Given that AMD, Intel and others have the ability to make 486-compatible processors currently, I would have thought you could just buy a CPU or SoC to run 486 code.
Define "486-compatible." As far as I know even intel's newest cpus can run 486 era 16-bit stuff in hardware.
But, a plain answer: Via Eden boards. still use north/southbridge architecture, and are from the mid 2000's.
It's just modern Windows/Linux that have discontinued the ability. Or, perhaps you have 16/32 and 32/64 and are unable to do 16bit on 64bit machines- which still boils down to "operating system."
By far the biggest issue though is that even the Via Eden processor is significantly faster than a 486- and lots of software (especially games) from that era used no-op instruction loops for timing and timers. This results in games like The Incredible Machine's level timer running out in half a second or less.
Re: 486Tang – 486 on a credit-card-sized FPGA board
#13Silly question. Are there any 486-compatible small CPUs that could be embedded into a project instead of using an FPGA? Given that AMD, Intel and others have the ability to make 486-compatible processors currently, I would have thought you could just buy a CPU or SoC to run 486 code.
Intel did have a product like that but it's been discontinued: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quark
Re: 486Tang – 486 on a credit-card-sized FPGA board
#14I hadn't heard of this board before, here's a link to a page on the manufacturer's site: https://classic.sipeed.com/tangconsole
Ah that’s nice. Affordable FPGAs are always welcome.
Re: 486Tang – 486 on a credit-card-sized FPGA board
#15Silly question. Are there any 486-compatible small CPUs that could be embedded into a project instead of using an FPGA? Given that AMD, Intel and others have the ability to make 486-compatible processors currently, I would have thought you could just buy a CPU or SoC to run 486 code.
Vortex86 is probably the closest thing to what you are looking for.
Re: 486Tang – 486 on a credit-card-sized FPGA board
#16When you say "credit-card-sized," I expect the thickness to be as thin as a credit card, too. Isn't the Raspberry Pi credit card sized too?
Re: 486Tang – 486 on a credit-card-sized FPGA board
#17Silly question. Are there any 486-compatible small CPUs that could be embedded into a project instead of using an FPGA? Given that AMD, Intel and others have the ability to make 486-compatible processors currently, I would have thought you could just buy a CPU or SoC to run 486 code.
Vortex86 is probably the closest thing to what you are looking for.
Any idea when Pixel86 is going to be available again or how/where to get an ITX-Llama system?
Re: 486Tang – 486 on a credit-card-sized FPGA board
#18I hadn't heard of this board before, here's a link to a page on the manufacturer's site: https://classic.sipeed.com/tangconsole
A review of sorts - https://youtu.be/ScwZwfS53dE
Re: 486Tang – 486 on a credit-card-sized FPGA board
#19I miss Intel's Quark chips. Tiny, cheap, and Pentium enough.
Didn't they have the F00F bug? (Thanks, I keep misremembering) How much more Pentium do you want?